PROPOSED ORGANIZATIONAL REALIGNMENT OF ORE (IPB NOTICE NO. 4)

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• Publication Date: September 8, 1949
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21 January 195;
The Assistant Director, Reports and Estimates 8 September 19)i9
Chief, Global Survey Group
Proposed Organizational Realignment of ORE (IPB Notice No. )
1. Im still greatly disturbed by the implications of yesterday's IPB
iVleeting and by my inability to express my position clearly on that occasion.
We were all placed in a false position by being called upon to act on a question
not really open to discussion, so that our acquiescence in a fait accompli is
liable to misinterpretation.
2. I would never question the power of the Assistant Director to reorgan-
ize ORE in any way he saw fit, on his own authority and responsibility, with or
without my concurrence or that of the IPB. Inasmuch as he bears an ultimate
personal responsibility for the efficient functioning of ORE, he must have
commensurate authority and his consultation with the IPB can be only a matter of
his own convenience, not of obligation. Consequently, as long as I remain a
member of ORE,, I shall loyally endeavor to do my part in whatever form of organ-
ization the Assistant Director may choose to prescribe.
3. Reciprocally, however, the IPB cannot be made to share responsibility for
a recommendation in which it had no effective voice. The "proposed organizational
realignment of ORE" was recommended to the Director without consultation with the
IPB, on the Assistant Director's sole authority and responsibility, and its status
in that regard cannot be altered by an ex post facto consultation with the I? B
restricted to incidental considerations. It became evident in discussion that
there exists a considerable body of opinion that the "proposed realignment"
constitutes no real change whatever in the status quo. In the circumstances, the
acquiescence of the IPB to the fait accompli, as an interim measure, cannot
properly be represented as an endorsement of the proposals as either a plan of
organization or a response to NSC 50.
4. While perfectly willing to cooperate loyally in the plan of operation
presented, I have particular scruples regarding the text in which it is presented,
particularly paragraph 2d, to which I cannot conscientiously subscribe. I feel
obliged, therefore, to request that the action of the IPB not be reported in such
form as to imply my concurrence in that text, even as an interim measure.
G/GS: LIlalontague/ jm
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